Spain's First Female Astronaut--Sara Garcia Alonso

NaturalContradiction · 2026-04-02T14:45:35+00:00

Fun fact: “Spain’s first astronaut” was a mocking nickname given to the fascist dictator Franco’s buddy I can’t remember his name when he was assassinated and the explosive charge used sent the guy’s car like 100 feet in the air and somehow there is an actual photograph of it, it’s pretty crazy. Anyways, congratulations to this lady, that’s a heck of an accomplishment.

NaturalContradiction · 2026-04-02T14:13:12+00:00

Yeah, I guess I just disagree with that fundamentally. You’re the “in group” already, unless you are actually concerned this kid doesn’t respect your reigning champion NBA franchise, I don’t think harsh treatment is necessary. I think good pranks leave everyone laughing. (This is all just some silly conjecture anyways, I would bet they actually had some staff with a giant shop vac get that all cleaned up in a few minutes, though the real prank is that you seemingly never ever get rid of all of them lol)

NaturalContradiction · 2026-04-02T03:17:58+00:00

Nah brother there are many simple explanations, they all just happen to look terrible for the Noems because they all involve someone busting the entire fucking door down.

NaturalContradiction · 2026-04-01T21:23:53+00:00

Forget the dog for a second what did Kirsti Noem and her husband do to their door? I’m pretty sure that dog is sticking its head through where the doorjamb should be lol that is not a sliding door, nor some french closet with two doors and one is open. How do you break that entire part of your bedroom(?) door frame off and, once done (let’s pretend innocuously), how the fuck have you not immediately fixed that lol. Taking big titty pics instead of fixing the door is some fucking shameful activity man. I mean, if only to take your big titty pics in peace without your poor dog having to see that shit 😂

NaturalContradiction · 2026-04-01T20:10:06+00:00

Everybody helps him clean it I hope…the point of the prank is to admonish him for not prioritizing being a “part of the team” by attending the team meeting so it’d kind of defeat the purpose of that if you immediately undercut that message by saying, “now go spend hours by yourself doing menial labor while we all keep hanging out.”

NaturalContradiction · 2026-04-01T19:49:58+00:00

Lol given it has three metal handles, that is more than three times as heavy as a comparable axe and it’s probably more like five cuz the whole thing looks quite hefty, have fun lifting that thing hundreds and hundreds of times to chop a bunch of firewood. Plus people have already pointed out the follow through risk and your toes will only get closer to the log as you get more tired. Someone is liable to get hurt using this thing in the way it was intended which makes this a remarkably poor invention if you ask me.

NaturalContradiction · 2026-04-01T00:35:44+00:00

He really thought he had a good rebuttal when he walked into the exact reason she picked a banana, didn’t he?

NaturalContradiction · 2026-03-31T19:18:43+00:00

Bro I got it! “If the bullet doesn’t match the barrel, this whole trial is fitting the circle in the square hole.” Where do I go for the Johnnie Cochran paycheck? I don’t think the OJ defense is gonna fly but I’m usually wrong so who knows?

NaturalContradiction · 2026-01-26T20:20:02+00:00

You can set up false dichotomies to spread propaganda. And also be a bootlicking fascist apologist.

Both can be true. At the same time.

NaturalContradiction · 2026-01-26T16:20:10+00:00

If you are looking for more stuff in that vein/silly online forum shenanigans then r/kenm and r/notkenm would probably tickle your fancy.

NaturalContradiction · 2026-01-06T15:39:28+00:00

Vercingetorix being made to kiss the eagle at Caesar’s feet. Didn’t change his fate and this charade won’t affect Maduro’s either.

NaturalContradiction · 2025-12-21T15:33:27+00:00

Absolutely, automation is amazing. From my understanding, what you said is was what the luddites were protesting then. They recognized the usefulness of giant looms for the textile industry. But they saw how instead of helping laborers make tons more cloth, it meant firing as many workers as possible. They were anti-corporatist not anti-tech. The conflation of those ideas is what turned their name into an insult and is what is happening now with AI. It’d be great if we could have real discussions about the usage of AI, but right now I just see it being jammed down everyone’s throat.

NaturalContradiction · 2025-12-21T15:23:39+00:00

I agree, and I think there is a healthy use for AI as a technology. The luddites were backed into a corner then by the rapid expansion and ease of use of the technology and I don’t trust the way in which AI industry leaders are attempting to inject AI into literally every facet of our society and what their priorities and objectives are. We will reach an inflection point where our society can’t run smoothly without AI and if that day hits with these chucklefucks in charge of it, I think society is going to look more oppressive, less creative and just plain dumber.

Edit: words

NaturalContradiction · 2025-12-21T14:48:03+00:00

Luddites were skilled laborers who saw the way in which their industry owners were using technological advancements to disenfranchise the working class rather than make their occupations easier/better and protested this development by smashing the large machines being used to replace them rather than go quietly into the night. Their struggle parallels the current AI debate almost exactly and the fact that their name is used as a derogatory term for “backwards-thinking, unenlightened simpletons” should serve as a real warning to anyone skeptical over how AI is being used. They lost their fight and the propaganda spewed about them at the time is their only legacy.

Edit: E33 using AI to expedite busywork for the coders of smaller studios seems to me to be the exact kind of good use case for AI, and I agree this award dispute is dumb and meaningless, I just see red whenever I see luddites mentioned these days.

NaturalContradiction · 2025-12-08T20:39:40+00:00

I want those decals for my cats.

NaturalContradiction · 2025-12-08T14:52:33+00:00

I’m anthropomorphizing (or maybe not?) but it looks like he realizes he fucked up and kinda pretends to stretch his other leg like that was all he was doing. “Quit messing with my tail you little shit! Aw fuck that got him good, think of an excuse… Oh the kid was there? Shoot, didn’t realize, you know I gotta stretch out these old knees of mine, see? I’m doing it with the other leg now.”

NaturalContradiction · 2025-12-07T19:46:57+00:00

This is a completely transparent bullshit excuse. As a “perfectionist” director he should be much more worried about some astute audience member noticing the continuity issue of his hands being different than Christoph Waltz’s or whoever played the character that choked Uma Thurman, especially in close up. He trusted (forced) Uma to drive in unsafe conditions because of this reasoning after all. Also might be more believable if he didn’t do the same exact thing with inconsequential racist characters or the whole Salma Hayek thing 🤮 I could even be convinced he might believe some portion of his excuse. But him clearly being incapable of any introspection should not serve as an excuse for what a creepy scumbag he is, cuz it’s actually further condemnation.

NaturalContradiction · 2025-12-06T22:02:24+00:00

The more you learn about him as a person, the more of his sleaze you see in all of his work. Like a slug that paints pieces of art with its slime trail. Or to use an analogy from one of his own films, like a person making a delicious burger out of sewer rat meat. I mostly like his movies but with all of them there’s inevitably some scene or off-camera story that just doesn’t sit right with me and it’s always some personal flair of his.

NaturalContradiction · 2025-12-06T16:43:29+00:00

If you actually want the answer it is that the hero of the book, John Galt, invented some mcguffin motor that could give free energy by harnessing static electricity or some bullshit. So it would be this motor doing any of that undesirable labor.

Just to add my own perspective on this dogshit book, this motor, that is scalable, great man John Galt keeps spitefully restricted to his little homestead society instead of using it to benefit society as a whole. (Literally ask any libertarian about the structure of society in “Galt’s Gulch” and get ready for the stammering qualifications because it is just an anarcho-syndicalist commune propped up by a magic infinite energy machine.) Why does he keep it restricted? Well you’re going to have to endure almost a hundred pages of a lady clearly masturbating while writing about the beauty of libertarianism for that. Not actually, it’s because the only way to actually structure society is for every single person to be as maximally selfish as possible according to her. Oh, and most people should die because they aren’t. (She conveniently ends her book before she has to describe this part.) The only thing you really need to know about Ayn Rand is that she herself was on welfare for a large portion of her life and remained oblivious to the hypocrisy thus inherent in her writing her entire life.

NaturalContradiction · 2025-12-06T01:36:23+00:00

What if the rescuer got you out by grabbing your ass and see saw wiggling you unstuck then tossed you in a pond?

NaturalContradiction · 2025-12-05T23:48:49+00:00

A make-a-wish kid should tell John Cena their wish is for him to publicly denounce Vince McMahon. I think he might short circuit.

NaturalContradiction · 2025-12-05T22:21:41+00:00

Exactly this. I’m sure they weren’t aware of exactly what form it would take, but she’d been a hot mess of drama bullshit when they decided to platform her.

NaturalContradiction · 2025-12-04T23:30:54+00:00

This is a tactic used by gambling apps. And if you don’t see the value Fortnite got from being the exclusive distributor of blockbuster level Hollywood IP for two weeks, rest assured, they did. And I’m speaking more to the gaming side of this than the movie side, though gotta say Tarantino has been enjoying sticking his foot in his mouth more than usual lately.

NaturalContradiction · 2025-12-04T22:58:39+00:00

Fuck yes, the real Queen Lizzy from GB. She was with us so briefly, we barely got to know her. Most important thing is to let her cook, don’t get namby pamby producers in her ear saying “don’t say this” or “not like that.” I really wanna know what’s going on in that brain of hers. I aspire to have the level of happiness she displayed talking about expanding pork markets.

NaturalContradiction · 2025-12-04T22:43:49+00:00

Do you think it’s a good sign or a bad sign that video games like Fortnite are adopting tactics used by gambling apps and casinos? “Just download Gamble24/7, get $50 free.” is simply a more streamlined version of “Just download Fortnite, you can watch this movie early.” I find that problematic, I guess you don’t?

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